Groundwater resources in the Lagan Valley Sandstone aquifer, Northern Ireland
Kalin, Robert and Roberts, C. (1997) Groundwater resources in the Lagan Valley Sandstone aquifer, Northern Ireland. Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, 11 (2). pp. 133-139. (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-6593.1997.tb00104.x)
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Beneath Belfast and the Lagan Valley lies Northern Ireland's most important aquifer, the Triassic Sherwood Sandstone. Up to 300 m in thickness and with a total abstraction of around 31 000 m(3)/d, it is a modest aquifer by UK and world standards; nonetheless, it is an important local water source. The use of this aquifer system as a water supply will undoubtedly increase as growth of industry and population continues in the Belfast metropolitan area. Even with the mesic climate of Ireland, groundwater mining of this aquifer system is already occurring, and thus there is a need for detailed aquifer planning and protection to be implemented in order to preserve this resource for the future.
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Item type: Article ID code: 38404 Dates: DateEventApril 1997PublishedSubjects: Medicine > Therapeutics. Pharmacology Department: Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Mar 2012 15:02 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 17:22 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38404